Turbolinux joins Microsoft-backed ODF translator project, Jul 11, 2007

Linux distributor Turbolinux has announced that it has joined the Open XML Translator project, an open source development effort sponsored by Microsoft to create interoperability between the OOXML and ODF formats.

A new study says past delays in Microsoft Corp.'s products are causing some businesses to think twice about renewing the long-term service agreements that include rights to upgrade to future versions of its programs.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites and likened them to religious fanatics -- the latest sign of a growing schism in the open source community between business-minded developers like Torvalds and free software purists.

Slackware is now nearing the bleeding edge without sacrificing stability, making this truly an exciting release.

The single biggest argument against a smooth migration to one of the popular desktop Linux distributions is the belief that key applications are not available on the Linux platform. However there are a multitude of fantastic open source alternatives that are easy to install and free to use.

Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC survey.

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced July 9 that it is releasing Storm, a generic open-source object relational mapper, which is used in Launchpad, a Web-based collaboration platform for open-source developers.

... what follows is a list of some of the more common distributions, grouped into several basic categories. The list is not exhaustive, and may sometimes be idiosyncratic, but should give at least some idea of the variety available.

Linux vendor Mandriva now has a presence in Britain after the formation of Mandriva UK Limited. The company said it aims to provide local distribution of Mandriva Linux and other open-source applications throughout the UK.

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